Improved medical plaster



S. I. MERRILL; OF FALMOUTH, MAINE, ASSIGNOR' TO D. YOUNG its;

AND M. C. MERRILLQOF SAME PLACE; A

Letters Patent No. 83,872, dated Nomwei 10, 1ses.

munch-:1) amn on. rnasm The Schedule referred to in um. um;- Patent and mm, part of the use To ellwlwm itmay Beit known that I, S. I. MERRILL, of Falmouth, in the county of Cumberland, and State of Maine, haveoriginated and invented a-new and useful Improved Plaster; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and of the method of compounding, manufaetm'ing, and preparing it, which will enable others to make. and use my invention.

Resin, twelve pounds; mutton-tallow, one pound;

beeswax, four ounces; 'fir-balsam, two fluid ounces; alcohol, four fluid ounces a fir-oil, one-half of a fluid ounce.

The alcohol and fir-oil are first mixed together, and the other ingredients are melted and added, the compound constituting 'a plaster, which is adhesive, strengthening, and healing in its character. The solid parts of the mixture are melted, and the whole inter-timed by the application of heat, and the compound is prepared for use and sale.

' What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is--- The above-described compound of ingredients, in the named. proportion, for the purposes set forth.

- S. I. MERRILL. Witnesses:

- E. N. TUKESBURY, v A, MERRILL. 

